Wilma's Cooking Tips 35 Essential Telephone

Sprouting seeds are so easy to make and only cost you pennies. They are delicious to enhance any salad and are rich in Potassium, Magnesium and Calcium.

Have a clean jar—rinse 2/3 tbsp of seeds ( i.e. lentils, alfalfa, sunflower, etc.).

Rinse once a day and leave jar in a dark place. In less than 7 days, depending on the size of seeds, you have the sprouts.

I do lentils and they are ready in 4/5 days. Nutty and delicious.

Submitted by Wilma Keeley

THE FIRE THAT DESTROYED THE PALACE OF WESTMINTER 1834

Unlike today, the Palace of Westminster was the Royal Palace lived in by all the English monarchs from King Canute onwards until Henry VIII’ s reign. The country was also governed from there, with the House of Lords since the 14thC and the Commons since the 16thC.

But, by the Georgian period, it was said that with the interior walls and partitions and rickety staircases and twisting corridors that had been erected to make rooms for the various offices and assembly rooms, as Parliament developed, the old palace was an accident waiting to happen.

Then, in October 1834, it did!

Tax management at the time used short wooden sticks, suitably inscribed, as confirmation that various taxes had been paid. Called Tally Sticks, they were disposed of after the payment of a tax was recorded, by burning them in the furnace under the main ground floor.

There were cart-loads of these sticks, and even after the chimney caught fire, the Housekeeper and the Clerk of Works continued to do their job of burning them.

In the early evening, the flames took hold and within a half hour, it looked serious. Then a huge fireball exploded out of the building -and that was that! The biggest fire since 1666. It is fortunate that some 44 local artists took up their paints and pencils and recorded the conflagration. Many of their works are held in the Parliamentary Art Collection.

The parish fire engines and those of the Insurance Companies all came out to help, but the main problem was that the River Thames happened to be at low ebb, and reaching the water was not easy!

When at last the river allowed, the floating fire engine of the London Fire Engine Establishment was also able to join in –by which time, almost the whole of the Palace was destroyed. It did however play an important role of quelling the flames enveloping the massive oak timbers of the roof of the Great Hall. It took a further five days to dampen down the last of the smouldering embers.

Literally hundreds of volunteers tried to help, and many items of art (and tax records) were saved, but the building was lost -except for the Great Hall and a few small rooms on the ground floor.

As may be imagined, crowds flocked to see the disaster unfolding. It was said that many cheered as the walls crumbled, but more were horrified at the ferocity of the blaze.

Amongst the onlookers was Mr AWN Pugin, who later designed The Clock Tower that was to become Big Ben twenty years onward. He and Sir Charles Barry designed the new Palace keeping to the ‘footprint’ of the old Palace, which explains why the walls of the passageways between The Great Hall and the Central Lobby do not quite align. But the tiny cloister and the miniature Chapter House attached to St Stephen’s Chapel dating from 1526, were only partly damaged and were included in Barry’s design, and were restored as some of the great treasures of late medieval gothic architecture, now enclosed within the new Palace. Similarly, the undercroft chapel that had been used by the Speaker as his dining room before the fire, became the Undercroft Chapel of St Mary and is in regular use as such.

The buildings were not insured and the damage was estimated to be about £2 million.

No-one was prosecuted, but the public inquiry found various people to have been guilty of ‘negligence and foolishness’. The happier result of the fire was the establishment of the London Fire Brigade and the creation of a National Archives for the United Kingdom.

And no lives were lost.

Submitted by Geoff Morgan

DO IT YOURSELF T.I.E. FOR €12.00 (TARJETA DE IDENTIDAD DE EXTRANJERO

Following Stephanie Monahan’s very useful article in the November ICE magazine, on applying for a T.I.E, I was motivated to see if I could carry out the process without the use and expense of a Solicitor or Gestor. Some people are paying up to €150.00 per person so it is definitely worthwhile trying to do it yourself. The process may appear lengthy when written down but in reality it is relatively simple and will help improve your Spanish a little at the same time! Using the indicated internet Hyperlinks, as

shown in this article, in the online ICE magazine will take you directly to the

required forms. The most difficult part was finding from where to download the three forms which are required for submission to the authorities. The three forms are Modelo 790 012, Modelo EX-23 and the Police appointments system ( Our application was based on us holding an existing green Residency paper

for more than five years and being UK citizens. Different forms will be required

depending on your residency and nationality status ) Note :-You need to make an application individually. Modelo 790 012 is the form required to prove payment of the necessary fees. You first have to fill out a form available at https://sede.policia.gob.es/Tasa790_012/ ImpresoRellenar Fill in your NIE, Name and address etc. in the IDENIFICACION section and in the AUTOLIQUIDACION section press “Principal”. Next go to the section Tarjetas de

identidad de extranjeros (TIE) y certificados de registro de residentes

comunitariosand and select the last option Certificado de registro de residente comunitario o Tarjeta de residencia de familiar de un ciudadano de la Unión by pressing the button on the right hand side. In the INGRESO section press the button en effective next to the €12,00 and then complete the simple security code at the bottom. When this is all completed on line, a final different version appears on your screen which is the one you are required to print out and actually take to the bank to pay and obtain a receipt. To make the €12.00 payment, I used one of the, recently installed, bill payment ATM machines which are now appearing outside many Spanish banks. I found the BBVA Bank machines particularly helpful as they have a comprehensive English language option which guides you through the process. Finally the machine produces a receipt which is the one required by the Police. Form Modelo EX-23 is available to download at http://extranjeros.inclusion.gob.es/es/modelossolicitudes/mod_solicitudes2/ and must be printed out and filled in by hand. Very useful information on how to fill out the EX-23 form is available at the Citizens Advice in Spain web page https://www.citizensadvice.org.es/faq/which-boxes-to-tickon-form-ex-23-for-special-tie/

You are also required to have an up-to-date Padron form. We found that the Ayuntamiento Padron office in Estepona now use an electronic appointment system which is accessed via a console just inside the door. The console issues a paper appointment number with the date and time of the appointment. Our declared appointment time was late by about 15 minutes but the whole process inside the office took just two or three minutes. You must also provide a correctly sized and proportioned passport photo. I found a useful, on line, system at https://makepassportphoto.com/ where you can download any head and shoulders photo and they will produce a specific Spanish T.I.E. photo for you to print out for a very small fee of 2.99 USD. You can, of course, have one prepared by any of the photo shops in the area. Finally you have to make an appointment with your local Policia Nacional station. The appointment system is accessible on line at https://sede.administracionespublicas.gob.es/icpco/index. Select your Province from the drop down list (probably Malaga) and Press Aceptar. On the next page you must go to the sectionTRA MITES CUERPO NACIONAL DE POLICI and select POLICIA-EXP TARJETA ASSOCIADA AL ACUERDO DE RETIRADA CIUDADANOS BRITANICOS YSUS FAMILIARES (BREXIT) from the drop down list. Press Aceptar. On the next page it gives a list of the documents that you will need when visiting the Police station. Press Entrar. The next page requires you to fill in your N.I.E number and Name etc. Press Aceptarand on the final page you are given a choice of three dates and once selected the system sends out a code to your mobile phone which must be entered on the presented form to finalise your appointment . Finally an email is sent to you confirming the date, time and a specific reference number. We found that Police appointments were available within one week of our application. You need to take your original Green NIE paper or card together with an up to date passport when going to the Police station. The Policia office were very efficient and your name was called out when it was your turn. Due to Covid restrictions, only one person was allowed into the station at a time. Having previous experiences of Spanish bureaucracy, I presented all the required documentation in duplicate, though it does not appear to be necessary. The staff all spoke good English and you have to have your fingerprints taken using a small screen -no messy ink pads! The whole process took just a few minutes. You are then presented with a document confirming you application which includes a “Lote” number. The Policeman advised that we should return in one month to collect the actual T.I.E. You need to repeat the appointment application process, as detailed above, before collecting your card. We chose to delay week or so beyond the suggested date to allow for delays in the system. On arrival to collect your T.I.E card you will see a “Lote” number posted on the door of the station. This should be the same or later than your own “Lote” number. Finally you must have your fingerprints taken again to confirm you are actually the correct person collecting the card.

THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION 100 YEARS OLD IN MAY 2021

The Great War created huge problems in Great Britain: the economy at rock bottom, three quarters of a million soldiers killed and twice as many injured, physically and mentally, and some disabled to the point of being unable to support their families. Towards the end of the war, support groups formed with some degree of political backing by the Conservatives and Liberals and the fledgling Labour party, each providing help where they could.

Four charities that pressed the Government to support the men as they returned from the Front, were The National Federation of Discharged and Demobilized Sailors and Soldiers, the National Association of Discharged Sailors and Soldier, The Comrades of the Great War and the Officers Association.

Even before the end of the war, General Sir Horrace Smith-Dorrien urged the charities to amalgamate, to concentrate their struggle with the Government, but to no avail. But in 1921 an ex-Lance Bombardier Tom Lister, himself injured in the war and discharged back to civvy-street, threw himself into the campaign with dramatic effect, and changes began to happen.

On Sunday 15 May 1921, under the patronage of Field Marshall, Earl Haig, a British commander at Passchendaele and the Somme, the charities amalgamated and formed the British Legion. Lord Haig became the first President and Tom Lister, later Sir Thomas Frederick Lister, the first chairman. The new organisation immediately included support for the members of the newly formed Royal Air Force and its predecessor, the Royal Flying Corps.

The purpose of the Legion was predominantly to care for those who had suffered as a result of service in the Armed Forces during the war, whether through their own service or through that of a husband, father or son. The suffering took many forms: the effect of a war wound on a man's ability to earn a living and support his family, or a war widow's struggle to give her children an education. Even those who had come through the war relatively unscathed struggled with the unemployment that was to remain so for years.

To help them, the Legion needed money and in its first year, a public appeal was started using the poppy of Flanders fields as its focus, a paper poppy given in recognition of a donation. The appeal was launched during November, emphasising the significance of the ‘eleventh of the eleventh’.

In the memorial services that followed the Cease Fire in 1918 and the Armistice in 1919, the two-minute silence to remember those who had fallen became what is now a well established tradition. Since then, with increasing patronage by members of the Royal Family, the Legion was granted a Royal Charter in 1925.

In 1971, the Legion was granted Royal status, and has extended its public presence with its nation-wide Poppy Appeal, stunning displays of poppies around the Tower of London and other places of national importance, and culminating in the annual Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on the day before Remembrance Sunday, itself a pageant of splendour and emotion.

As a result of these efforts and many more by its members, the Royal British Legion continues to support ex-servicemen and their dependants to this day.

We will remember them.

Submitted by Geoff Morgan

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Car Dent Removal Removed from bodywork at less than half the cost of normal repairs when the paint is not damaged. Ideal for dents caused by other car doors, golf balls, etc.

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Work Guaranteed Key Holding Service Fully Insured Specialists in Floor and Wall Tiling incl. Marble & Mosaic Property Maintenance All Types of Building Work

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These are the new rules that the Committee have put into place to keep you all safe, it is everybody's responsibility to adhere to them, anybody refusing to keep to the rules will unfortunately be asked to leave:

Capacity allowed is 75% using 25% of the tables indoors, 100% in toldos area but a distance of 1.5 metres to be kept between tables.

Anti bacterial gel to be used when you enter the Club which is provided at every entrance.

People must wear masks at all times apart from when sitting at a table.

Tables and chairs to be cleaned after every occupancy by the people vacating chair or table, cleaning materials provided at cleaning stations.

Only 1 person at a time in all of the toilets, locks have been fitted on the outer doors.

Toilets, door handles and light switches to be cleaned by anyone using the toilets. Cleaning materials provided or if you feel safer clean them before use as well.

No cushions to be used and when required, single use tablecloths only.

Lunches will now be served at your table.

Bar to be used for ordering & collecting of drinks only, no standing or sitting at the bar.

If you use the Computer, wipe everything down with wipes provided.

Books & puzzles may be taken but on return or touched must be put into the box provided to quarantine for 14 days.

Lift to be used by 1 person at a time unless of the same household.

If you have returned to Spain from another country please refrain from coming to the Club for 14 days.

Óptica Machin English Optician

Óptica Machin has established itself over the years as a highly recommended practice where eye care and exceptional service are the priorities. We welcome all patients, whatever your visual requirements for fashion, sports, style, UV protection and budget may be. The practice is very easy to find, located on the Avenida Litoral approach road into Estepona and has ample free parking. www.opticamachin.com info@opticamachin.com Tel 952 80 68 13

MORE FROM THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY

The following are various snippets from history which readers may find interesting, strange, humorous or just plain bizarre.

In 1529 the youthful Duke of Alba (1502-1582), yearning to spend a few hours with his young bride, rode from Hungary, where he was serving against the Turks, to Spain and back again. He covered a distance of some 2,200 miles in the remarkably short time of 17 days, for an average daily rate of nearly 130 miles.

Despite strenuous efforts to put an end to the practice, duels were so popular in the French Amy during the reign of Louis XIII (1610-1643) that an average of 121 officers died in such each year.

The first British infantry battalion to report not a single illiterate man in its ranks was the 1st Gordon Highlanders.... in 1933.

During the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, losses averaged one tank every fifteen minutes and one airplane every hour.

In 1943, all 4.4 million pairs of scissors produced in Occupied Europe were requisitioned for the use of the German Armed Forces.

Not a single person of the nearly 4.5 million American military personnel transported overseas during the First World War was lost in transit to enemy action, though 71 men did die of disease or accidents en route.

During the peak of American participation in the Second World War (19441945), the US shipped a monthly average of 65,000 measured tons of mail overseas, the peak being the November 1944 pre-Christmas load of 178,000 tons, or more than 50 pounds of mail for every man and woman overseas.

The chief designer of artillery for the French Army in the late 1800s was a

General de Bang.

CODEWORD SOLUTION

If the person who named Walkie Talkies named everything

Stamps –Lickie Stickie

Defibrillators –Hearty Starty

Bumble bees –Fuzzy Buzzy

Pregnancy test –Maybe Baby

Bra –

Breastie Nestie

Fork –

Stabby Grabby

A cut A bove

Recent studies show that cows produce more milk when the farmer talks to them. It's a case of in one ear and out the udder.

SUDOKU SOLUTION

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Full page 26€ per edition 30€ per edition Discounts:- 6 editions 10% 10 editions 20%. There will be 10 editions per calendar year August & September combined - December & January Combined Advertising fees to be prepaid before the 15th of the month. Copy to be emailed to editor@theiceclub.es before 15th of any month, for inclusion in the following issue

INTERNATIONAL CLUB OF ESTEPONA (Siberme) accepts no responsibility for contents of any advertisement appearing

I.C.E. Clubhouse, Urbanisation Bahia Dorada, Entrada 5, at Km. 149, A7, Estepona 29693 Málaga Telephone 952 802 549 www.theiceclub.es Email: info@theiceclub.es PLEASE TELL ADVERTISERS YOU SAW THEIR ADVERT IN ICE MAGAZINE

COACH TRIPS See trip information for times. Please ensure that you sit in the seat numbered on your ticket. We regret that we cannot stop at any other point unless agreed with the organiser, to pick up or put down. The organiser reserves the right to refuse to include any member they feel is not sufficiently able-bodied to follow the itinerary. Members are responsible for their own travel insurance.. Please produce your membership card together with the correct money. Have prepared your choice of the menu if applicable. Final ticket booking: All tickets must be booked and paid for on or before the last Thursday coffee morning before the event. Late phone bookings

BUYING YOUR TICKET

cannot be accepted. Members are advised to

attend the last Thursday before a trip in case there are any last-minute alterations.

Cannot be given for tickets, unless REFUNDS the organiser is notified in time, and providing the trip is full and a replacement can be found from the waiting list. Tickets are not transferable to other members without the authorisation of the organiser.

WELFARE Members are requested to notify our welfare officer, Wilma Keeley if they know of any member who is ill. Tel: 951 577 050 / 679 138 952 email: wilmakeeley2000@yahoo.co.uk

SMOKING The smoking of tobacco, electronic cigarettes and any other substance is not be permitted anywhere in or on the premises of The International Club of Estepona, Bahia Dorada.

PARKING When visiting the club please park considerately between white lines and never on yellow lines. Please DO NOT PARK in the car parking space in front of next door's apartment. Although it is not officially for their sole use it is better for peaceful relations that we don't park there.

MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL

Renewing your annual club membership can be done by bank transfer. Send to: Bank - Banco Sabadell, Sabinillas. IBAN:- ES98 0081 0535 8800 0131 1734 BIC CODE:- BSABESBB

TIPS

IMPORTANT: TELL THE BAR STAFF OF ANY BROKEN GLASS AND THEY WILL DISPOSE OF IT.Are included in the cost of coach travel Please advise TED LUNNISS the CLUB TREASURER by email if you have sent a and restaurants, but not for hotels. payment by bank transfer, stating your name and membership number if possible.

DOGS Are not allowed inside the ted_lunniss@hotmail.co.uk TEL: 691 392 156 clubhouse. They are permitted on the lower terrace but only when they are under the owner’s control by being attached to a lead which is held by the owner or IMPORTANT, ALL ORGANISERS PLEASE NOTE: THE CLUBHOUSE FURNITURE MUST BE LEFT AS SET FOR A THURSDAY MEETING BEFORE LEAVING THE CLUB. SWITCH OFF attached to one of the hooks on the wall which LIGHTS, FANS AND AIR CONDITIONERS. are provided for that purpose. SET BUILDING ALARM AND LOCK DOORS.

CLUB DRINKS POLICY All drinks, whether alcoholic or otherwise, to be consumed on the Club premises shall be purchased from the Club bar. HELICOPTEROS SANITARIOS Do not have an answering machine. The phone will ring until someone picks up. If you hear a message in

Spanish you have dialled the wrong number. 33

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